# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-80738"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-03T08:21:53.143Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:47:01.698Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80738"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80738.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80738"
title: "bpf: Check sk_state before sk_protocol in bpf_tcp_*_syncookie"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Check sk_state before sk_protocol in bpf_tcp_*_syncookie\n\nbpf_tcp_gen_syncookie and bpf_tcp_check_syncookie accept a socket pointer\n'sk' with argument type ARG_PTR_TO_BTF_ID_SOCK_COMMON. However, they access\nsk-\u003esk_protocol without validating whether 'sk' represents a full socket.\n\nFix this issue by checking sk-\u003esk_state != TCP_LISTEN before inspecting\nsk-\u003esk_protocol in both bpf_tcp_gen_syncookie and bpf_tcp_check_syncookie.\nSince mini-sockets are never in the TCP_LISTEN state, the condition\nshort-circuits and prevents dereferencing fullsock-specific fields."
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